Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 74 61
Rank change year-on-year -50 -13 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,381 1,544 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.60% 3.71% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 3.99% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 929 1,072 2,800
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -16.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -6.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,999 38,652 81,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.50% 92.94% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40,056 22,591 59,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,757
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 1,257 £77,500 +3.33% 513
London +6 684 £87,500 +2.94% 242
Work from Home -22 611 £70,000 -2.77% 325
UK excluding London -115 578 £67,500 -3.57% 329
North of England -37 265 £69,310 -3.72% 106
South East -113 123 £75,000 +11.11% 111
North West -33 121 £70,000 - 72
Yorkshire -46 101 £69,310 -3.72% 16
Midlands -84 58 £67,500 +3.85% 27
South West -84 56 £62,500 -8.79% 44
North East -7 43 £65,000 +23.81% 18
East of England -24 39 £62,500 +8.70% 18
West Midlands -42 35 £72,500 +3.57% 11
Scotland -75 30 £60,000 -20.00% 14
East Midlands -63 22 £67,000 +3.08% 16
Wales -29 10 £54,185 -8.93% 7
Northern Ireland -36 6 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.38%) Apache
3 18 (1.30%) Confluence
4 17 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.94%) JBoss
7 12 (0.87%) IIS
8 11 (0.80%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.72%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.65%) CMS
11 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.29%) Appian
12 4 (0.29%) Camunda
12 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.29%) nginx
13 3 (0.22%) Liferay
13 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
15 1 (0.072%) CICS
Applications
1 13 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.51%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.072%) Actimize
6 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.072%) Quorum
6 1 (0.072%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 757 (54.82%) AWS
2 573 (41.49%) Azure
3 316 (22.88%) GCP
4 242 (17.52%) Serverless
5 166 (12.02%) SaaS
6 119 (8.62%) GitHub
7 118 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
8 109 (7.89%) Amazon S3
9 106 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
10 97 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
13 66 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
14 55 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 48 (3.48%) OpenShift
17 47 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
18 43 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
19 41 (2.97%) PaaS
20 39 (2.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.69%) Broadband
2 12 (0.87%) Network Security
3 10 (0.72%) HTTP
4 9 (0.65%) AMQP
5 7 (0.51%) Firewall
5 7 (0.51%) Internet
6 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.43%) DNS
7 5 (0.36%) DHCP
7 5 (0.36%) MQTT
8 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.29%) LTE
8 4 (0.29%) SNMP
8 4 (0.29%) WAN
9 3 (0.22%) Modbus
9 3 (0.22%) Multicast
9 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (13.61%) NoSQL
2 173 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (8.91%) MongoDB
4 109 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 70 (5.07%) MySQL
6 66 (4.78%) DynamoDB
7 62 (4.49%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.90%) Redis
10 36 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (2.61%) BigQuery
11 30 (2.17%) Big Data
12 22 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (1.52%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.09%) Pinecone
15 14 (1.01%) Power BI
16 13 (0.94%) DB2
17 11 (0.80%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.65%) Tableau
19 8 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 187 (13.54%) Git
2 127 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 96 (6.95%) GitLab
4 60 (4.34%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.55%) JIRA
6 41 (2.97%) Cucumber
7 31 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 31 (2.24%) JUnit
8 30 (2.17%) CircleCI
9 29 (2.10%) Selenium
10 20 (1.45%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.30%) Maven
12 16 (1.16%) Mockito
13 14 (1.01%) Claude Code
13 14 (1.01%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.94%) Vite
15 9 (0.65%) JMeter
15 9 (0.65%) Postman
16 8 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 411 (29.76%) Finance
2 354 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 167 (12.09%) Banking
4 106 (7.68%) Law
4 106 (7.68%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (6.08%) Retail
7 77 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (4.13%) Financial Institution
9 53 (3.84%) Telecoms
10 48 (3.48%) Back Office
11 26 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.38%) Billing
12 19 (1.38%) Legal
13 18 (1.30%) Advertising
14 15 (1.09%) Games
14 15 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.01%) Marketing
16 12 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 462 (33.45%) Developer
2 364 (26.36%) Senior
3 288 (20.85%) Software Engineer
4 217 (15.71%) Architect
5 182 (13.18%) Lead
6 113 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 113 (8.18%) Senior Developer
7 106 (7.68%) Java Developer
8 99 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
9 97 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 92 (6.66%) Java Engineer
11 72 (5.21%) .NET Developer
12 62 (4.49%) Software Developer
13 53 (3.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 49 (3.55%) Lead Developer
15 48 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
16 43 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
17 42 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
18 41 (2.97%) C# Developer
19 39 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (22.45%) React
2 291 (21.07%) .NET
3 280 (20.28%) RESTful
4 221 (16.00%) Spring
5 210 (15.21%) REST
6 208 (15.06%) Node.js
7 192 (13.90%) Spring Boot
8 173 (12.53%) Kafka
9 109 (7.89%) AngularJS
10 93 (6.73%) gRPC
11 83 (6.01%) .NET Core
12 79 (5.72%) HTML
13 71 (5.14%) CSS
14 65 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (4.63%) .NET Framework
16 58 (4.20%) Vue
17 57 (4.13%) ASP.NET
17 57 (4.13%) Middleware
18 53 (3.84%) Django
19 50 (3.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 406 (29.40%) Cloud Native
2 242 (17.52%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (7.75%) Product Ownership
4 91 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
6 56 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.26%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.26%) Video\Live Streaming
8 41 (2.97%) Data Structures
9 38 (2.75%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
11 29 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.81%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.74%) Virtual Team
14 23 (1.67%) Blockchain
15 20 (1.45%) AI Agents
16 18 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
17 16 (1.16%) Management Information System
18 15 (1.09%) IoT
18 15 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 67 (4.85%) Linux
2 30 (2.17%) Windows
3 16 (1.16%) Android
4 11 (0.80%) Unix
5 7 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.43%) CentOS
6 6 (0.43%) Debian
6 6 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (48.66%) CI/CD
2 547 (39.61%) Agile
3 540 (39.10%) DevOps
4 532 (38.52%) Software Engineering
5 389 (28.17%) Containerisation
6 311 (22.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 294 (21.29%) Mentoring
8 290 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
9 280 (20.28%) Event-Driven
10 273 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 269 (19.48%) Test Automation
12 246 (17.81%) AI
13 215 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
14 196 (14.19%) Computer Science
15 165 (11.95%) Clean Code
15 165 (11.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 163 (11.80%) Scrum
17 159 (11.51%) Roadmaps
18 158 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
19 150 (10.86%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 453 (32.80%) Java
2 385 (27.88%) Python
3 287 (20.78%) SQL
4 264 (19.12%) JavaScript
5 245 (17.74%) C#
6 211 (15.28%) TypeScript
7 132 (9.56%) Go
8 53 (3.84%) Scala
9 44 (3.19%) C++
10 43 (3.11%) PHP
11 35 (2.53%) Bash
12 34 (2.46%) C
13 30 (2.17%) Ruby
14 22 (1.59%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 17 (1.23%) PowerShell
16 16 (1.16%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.87%) Rust
18 10 (0.72%) Groovy
19 9 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 200 (14.48%) Degree
2 127 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 119 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 89 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 60 (4.34%) AWS Certification
6 38 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 16 (1.16%) CISSP
12 11 (0.80%) CISM
13 10 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.58%) PhD
15 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.23%) QA
2 31 (2.24%) GDPR
3 27 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 25 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.01%) NIST
8 11 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.72%) NCSC
10 9 (0.65%) GRC
11 6 (0.43%) IFRS
12 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SLA
13 4 (0.29%) WCAG
14 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.22%) SEPA
15 1 (0.072%) EMIR
15 1 (0.072%) Solvency II
System Software
1 417 (30.20%) Docker
2 14 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 436 (31.57%) Kubernetes
2 259 (18.75%) Terraform
3 92 (6.66%) Grafana
4 80 (5.79%) Ansible
5 39 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.45%) Kibana
7 18 (1.30%) Argo
8 9 (0.65%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.51%) Cilium
9 7 (0.51%) Puppet
10 4 (0.29%) Istio
10 4 (0.29%) Packer
10 4 (0.29%) Rancher
11 3 (0.22%) Nagios
12 2 (0.14%) MIIS
12 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 123 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.78%) Google
3 51 (3.69%) Oracle
4 45 (3.26%) Typelevel
5 20 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 19 (1.38%) IBM
7 16 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.09%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.09%) SAP
9 13 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 13 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (0.72%) Cisco
10 10 (0.72%) Software AG
11 9 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.65%) Databricks
11 9 (0.65%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.65%) Splunk
12 8 (0.58%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.51%) Guidewire